What are eight different things you could do anonymously for total strangers to brighten their day?

Question

Things that are not illegal or immoral and do not cost money.

And by anonymous, I mean the person cannot know who you are or see you do it.

Answer 1

1 - Shovel out the end of their driveway before they leave for work.
2 - Stick a few of your own flowers or really nice wild flowers in a vase and put it on their porch for them to find.
3 - Drop off magazines and books you're done reading at a nursing home.
4 - Call the manager of your grocery store the next time your cashier or bagger is upbeat and friendly and let them know how pleaseant or helpful they were - by name.
5 - Write a couple of your favorite 1- or 2-line jokes on some pieces of paper and plant one in whatever magazine you're looking at when you get called in, at the doctor or dentist's office.
6 - Find a question here that may be genuine but because of accidentally being placed in the wrong category, or stated with less-than perfect English skills, has not yet received a serious answer and, if you can, answer it. If you can't, advise them where they might find an answer, or how they might clarify and/or reclassify it here, in a way you would want to be treated, if you were they.
7 - See how many people you can make actually smile and *de-stress* before your eyes in crawling traffic or the shopping center parking lot, just by smiling in a lighthearted and understanding way and holding up a hand in return when they make (or just "almost" make) some minor error that costs you a tap on the brakes when *YOU* actually had the right-of-way, rather than scowling and shaking your head as you huff past. (Have *you* ever made the same mistake? Is there any chance you might again one day?)
8.- See how many people you can make smile whenever you're out running errands (well, most times, anyway - none of us feels like being "little susie sunshine" *all* the time). When you break your all-time high, celebrate with a few minutes of "you time", even if it's just 5 minutes with a favorite magazine.

Answer 2

Levels of tzedakah

Maimonides defined the following eight levels of charity:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. Giving a poor person work (or loaning him money to start a business) so he will not have to depend on charity. This is because the person is now free from having to rely on charity. The giver has not just helped the recipient for the short while, but instead for the rest of their life.

There are four sub-levels to this:

A. Giving a poor person work.

B.Making a partnership with them (this is lower than work, as the recipient might feel he doesn't put enough into the partnership).

C. Giving a loan.
D. Giving a gift.

2. Giving charity anonymously to an unknown recipient.

3. Giving charity anonymously to a known recipient.
4. Giving charity publicly to an unknown recipient.
5. Giving charity before being asked.
6. Giving adequately after being asked.
7. Giving willingly, but inadequately.
8. Giving unwillingly

Answer 3

1. Leave a book that you read and liked, in a senior housing facility.
2. Take with you from home, and leave current magazine at the doctor's office next time you have an appointment.
3. Smile.
4. Pick some flowers out of your garden and place them on someone's front porch.
5. Offer to help someone with their groceries at the grocery store.
6. Offer to vacuum someone's car for them, at the local car wash.
7. Hold the door open for everyone behind you, next time you go to the mall.
8. Offer to take the next elevator when you are waiting with a group and there won't be enough room for everyone.
9. Visit a local children's hospital and read stories to a few children.
10. Serve dinner to a group of homeless people in your local shelter.

Answer 4

1. Look for something around you that can be fixed up, picked up, or attended ie, put shopping carts up, pick up some trash laying around, pick up something that has fallen over

2. Anonymously send handmade cards or a letter to someone you care for with a smile drawn on it.

3. Cut coupons out and leave them at the grocer register for others

4. Leave have a nice day stickers at a front desk

5. Put together a writing kit with stationery, envelopes and stamps, pen and give to hospital/nursing home

6. Put change in a row of vending machines

7. Leave a book you have already finished somewhere for someone else to read.

8. Drop off a toy or game at a homeless shelter.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

- Aesop -

Answer 5

1. If they drop their groceries or something, help them pick it up.

2,. If you see a bill of money drop out of someones pocketbook, go give it back, This happened to me. I saw a lady drop a 20 dollar bill and gave the money back to her.

3.Give a pregnant or elderly person your seat on the bus.

4.Give them a smile and say "good day"

5.Let someone out if you can when no one stops to let them out of a parking lot.

6. If you see a mother and baby, tell her how cute her baby is,

7, If you see someone in a medical distress situation offer to help.
even if is just staying with them til help gets there.

8. Give someone a compliment when the occasion arises

Answer 6

A smile goes a long way.
Let someone go in front of you in line.
Hold a door open for someone.
Tell someone they look nice.
Let someone out into traffic.
Be nice.
Common courtesy is rare these days, but if we all made a little effort it really would be a nicer place we live in.

What a great question, thank you. You made my day!

Answer 7

1. smile
2. hold a door open for someone
3. let someone get ahead of you in line
4. put a dime in an expiring parking meter (hmmm..but that costs money)

4.pay someone a compliment
5.share your umbrella on a rainy day
6.let someone have the better parking spot
7.lend a good ear to a frustrated person who feels the need to complain
8. say a prayer for them

Answer 8

1. Give them your morning paper.
2. Hand them a cup of your coffee, maybe out of a thermos.
3. Give them one of your old books that makes you happy when you read it. Tell them the significance of the book etc etc.
4. Tell them a hilarious unforgetable joke
5. Ask them their name or ask them for a conversation.
6. Give them a fruit or vegetable and explain that you have an abundance in your garden, you're tired of eating them.
7. Offer to share something of yours with them, Time, Magazine, IPOD, Cab, etc etc.
8. Help them carry something

Answer 9

When I'm grocery shopping with coupons, I leave coupons that I don't use by the products. I leave change in vending machines, I also have made sack lunches for homeless people and distributed them at times.

Answer 10

Put extra money in the vending machine for the next person. (Ok, this costs money, but not much)
Leave a book where someone will pick it up.
Compliment someone - it's as easy as "that's a nice shirt."
Have fun - it's infectious